Sentences with phrase «giant galaxies like»

Giant galaxies like the Milky Way grew by absorbing smaller ones.

Both satellite galaxies resemble the ones that smashed together long ago to create giant galaxies like our own, so the discovery helps illuminate how such galactic building blocks formed and evolved.

Not exact matches

When observing a distant galaxy, for example, massive objects between Earth and the galaxy act like a giant lens and bend the galaxy's light, creating multiple images of the single galaxy.

Gal - Yam thinks the conditions in the host galaxy could be like those in the early universe, when theory says such giant stars were born and died in great numbers, seeding the universe with heavy elements.

But the new discoveries include almost every kind of galaxy, from shapeless dwarfs to disc - like giants three times the size of our Galaxy.

Giant elliptical galaxies like these are much more common than expected for the early universe.

Aging red giant stars coexist with their more plentiful younger cousins, the smaller, white, Sun - like stars, in this crowded region of our galaxy's ancient central hub, or bulge.

In more recent studies the universe appears as a collection of giant bubble - like voids separated by sheets and filaments of galaxies, with the superclusters appearing as occasional relatively dense nodes.

Most other giant spirals lack large, close - in, gas - rich satellite galaxies like the Magellanic Clouds.

As Francis describes it, the Milky Way and other spiral galaxies operate like a giant, spiral - grooved funnel into which billions of marbles are pouring.

Over millions of years the ongoing turbulence stirs the fields together like cream in coffee, forming one giant field that is perpendicular to the plane of the galaxy.

The Andromeda galaxy is a giant spiral like our own Milky Way, and a dwarf elliptical galaxy, NGC 205, is also shown.

The cluster is so massive that it magnifies the light from faraway galaxies behind it due to a phenomenon called gravitational lensing, where the curvature of space acts like a giant funhouse mirror to stretch and brighten distant objects.

Both the galaxy and the galaxy cluster are acting like a giant «cosmic lens,» bending and magnifying light from the supernova behind it, an effect called gravitational lensing.

The rest of the galaxy's sprawling disk of second - and third - generation stars grew more slowly in the suburbs, encircling the central bulge like a giant sombrero.

About 1,000 light - years across, the twisted cosmic dust cloud apparently shaped like a parallelogram is likely the result of a smaller spiral galaxy falling into the giant Centaurus A.

J0717 isn't just a large cluster of galaxies; astronomers are using it like a giant telephoto lens attachment to stud... view image

Like dust bunnies that lurk in corners and under beds, surprisingly complex loops and blobs of cosmic dust lie hidden in the giant elliptical galaxy NGC 1316.

Targeting bright giants, the method allows to obtain simultaneous age and chemical abundance information far deeper than would be possible with asteroseismology, extending the possible survey volume to remote regions of the Milky Way and even to neighbouring galaxies like Andromeda or the Magellanic Clouds already with present instrumentation, like VLT and Keck facilities.

galaxy 1 and 2 done that for wii, i liked sunshine but preferred Mario 64 and galaxies games so much more, due to wii limitations, the worlds in galaxy had to be kept small, but imagine bigger Mario 64 style worlds, and a huge open world based in the mushroom kingdom, like super Mario bros 3, with the giant world, water world, ice, etc i want a 3d super Mario bros 3, but with a mix of galaxy 1 and 2 and Mario 64 game play, while i liked Mario sunshine, i quickly got bored of the tropical island setting, and music, and the water based game play just didn't do it for me, and for most Mario fans, the sales speaks for itself, the fact is most Mario fans did not like sunshine.

Perhaps we're only saying this because the only image we've seen of her was shot by Annie Leibovitz, but Laura Dern's new Star Wars heroine looks like she's adding a giant dose of fashion to the galaxy.

With the new Connection Orb — a giant galaxy - like map that connects you with other Pokémon and gives you new quests to complete — you'll befriend Pokémon and conquer dungeons in no time at all.